Assistant Controller

• Job Title: Controller
• FLSA Classification: Exempt
• Facility
  
  Location:
  
  Boulder, CO / Position is Hybrid with three (3) days in office each week.
• Department: Finance
• Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
• Salary Range: $150,000 to $185,000 base salary, depending on experience.

At Centaurus Farms we develop cannabis cultivation and production facilities and produce high-quality flower and extracted products. We are the parent company operating businesses in Colorado and Kentucky and are exploring opportunities for expansion in Delaware and other locations.

Every time we grow something we record what went in, what came out, what was different, was it as good as last time — or better. The next time we grow the same strain we use the data to get it right rather than relying on someone’s memory.

There is no shortcut. Plants take their time. We just make sure we learn everything we can every time we cultivate, harvest, or trim something. Craft sets our standards. Consistency sets our schedule. Quality is what we deliver to our customers — every time. All part of our focused vision and what makes us a different strain of cannabis company.

You will own the books of a two-state cannabis operator and do much of the work yourself. 14er grows, manufactures, and sells cannabis in Colorado and is launching a medical cannabis operation in Kentucky. Finance has been outsourced until now. This is the first full-time finance hire, and the job is to build a function the business can rely on.

• Reports to: CEO
• Team: one bookkeeper today; you will shape what comes next
• Works closely with: the Senior Analyst, operations and cultivation leaders in both states, outside tax and audit firms
• Location: Boulder, Colorado. Hybrid, with Tuesday through Thursday in the office as the minimum. Expect more days on site in the first months, to see how the facilities run and get to know the teams, and whenever the work calls for it. Periodic travel to Kentucky

• The close. Monthly close for the parent company and every operating entity, including intercompany activity, consolidated across Colorado and Kentucky on a fixed calendar.
• The parent company's books. Debt, related-party balances, shared costs, and how those costs are allocated to the operating businesses.
• Inventory value and cost accounting. Product costs by SKU through cultivation, extraction, manufacturing, and packaging. Operations owns the physical inventory, the counts, and the system records. You own its value on the books and the monthly reconciliation between the two.
• The inventory and manufacturing system. Lead the finance side of our rollout, Kentucky first and then Colorado: item master, bills of materials, inventory states, and the link to the general ledger.
• Tax and compliance. Cannabis-specific cost allocation, state and local excise filings, sales tax, and the working relationship with our outside tax preparer and auditors.
• Cash and lenders. Cash forecasting, payables and receivables, payroll oversight, banking in a cash-heavy business, loan schedules, and lender reporting.
• Budgets and reporting. Budget versus actual by department each month, reviewed with the leaders who own the spending.
• Controls. Practical controls over cash, inventory, purchasing, and approvals.
• The team. Manage the bookkeeper and decide what the function needs as Kentucky grows.

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